Fredericksburg, Texas
Old Tunnel Bat Colony
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
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Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Waxahachie, Texas
It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.
Houston, Texas
At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Rocksprings, Texas
This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Ingram, Texas
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Durant, Oklahoma
No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.